Draining and dumping container



Patented Get. 11, 1927 UiliTED STATES ANNA D. BRUNE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

DRAINING AND DUMPING CONTAINER.

Application filed January 8, 192?. Serial No. 159,878.

2 is a side elevation partly in section. 1 is a vertical elevation, partly in ti n, a modified form of my device. Fig. A is a plan view of a modified form, My improved draining and dumping container may be used in any case where solid matter is immersed in liquid, such as waslv ins; machines, wash boilers, or cooking utensil or any other container where it is des ie to separate the liquid from the solid Q se or device consists of an enclosing outer provided with a hinged upper portion A wire basket 3 of like contour is adapted to fit into the shell 1 and rests upon the b stem of said shell.

At opposite ends of the basket 3, flexible members A are provided having their lower ends joined to the basket 3, passing upward over rollers 5. The outer ends of said flexible members terminate with a suitable handle 6.

hen used as a wash boiler, a suitable as burner 7 is provided, supported on braces 8 attached to the legs 9. A liquid outlet 10 permits draining 05 of the liquid by means of the valve 11.

When it is desired to remove clothes from the boiler, the flexible members are drawn upwardly and outwardly causing the wire basket 3 to raise wholly within the hinged upper portion 2 which is then rotated about its hinges l2, and the entire batch of clothes is dumped when the upper portion 2 reaches a horizontal position, as shown by the dotted lines 18.

The same operation takes place when cookvegetables in the modified form shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Having fully described my invention and its mode of operation, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to protect by Letters Patent is A draining and dumping container of the class described, comprising a hollow shell havin a hinged upper portion, a wire basket disposed within said hollow shell adapted to be raised and lowered by means of an upward and outward movement of flexible members whose lower ends are attached to opposite sides of said Wire basket, then pass upward over rollers provided in said hinged upper portion and terminating in handles on the outside of said hollow shell, said wire basket being adapted to fit said hinged upper portion and said hollow shell, and said hinged upper portion being adapted to be rotated to a horizontal position whereby solid matter drained of liquid and contained in said wire basket may be dumped.

In witness whereof I have hereunto afliXed my signature this 30th day of November, 1926.

ANNA D. BRUNE. 

